Literatura nord-americana Escriptors afroamericans Història i crítica.
Littérature américaine Auteurs blancs Histoire et critique.
Afroamericani (popolo) letteratura americana (Stati Uniti)
American literature White authors History and criticism.
Miśḥaḳim ba-afelah : loven ha-ʻor ṿeha-dimyon ha-sifruti
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. "By going for the American literary jugular ... she places her arguments ... at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly ... reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."
Playing in the dark : whiteness and literary imagination
Playing in the dark
A partir d'exemples pris dans la littérature des Etats-Unis (chez Melville, Twain, W. Cather, Poe, Hemingway, H. James, Faulkner), l'auteure s'interroge sur la place du personnage noir, sur la façon dont se constituent la "blancheur littéraire" et la "noirceur littéraire" et se penche sur les conséquences de cette construction. L'ouvrage est dérivé de conférences prononcées à Harvard.
Im Dunkeln spielen : weisse Kultur und literarische Imagination : Essays
Playing in the dark : blancheur et imagination littéraire
Soittoa pimeässä : valkoihoisuus ja kirjailijan luova mielikuvitus
Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination
اللهو في العتمة : البياض والمخيلة البشرية
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Spelen in het donker : de blanke literaire verbeelding
Miśḥaḳim ba-afelah : loven ʻor ṿeha-dimyon ha-sifruti
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature ... draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest." Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature--individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn. A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
Jouer dans le noir : blancheur et imagination littéraire
Giochi al buio
Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination ; the William E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization 1990
The author gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
al-Lahw fī al-ʻatmah : al-bayāḍ wa-al-makhīlah al-basharīyah
Playing in the dark blancheur et imagination littéraire
Whiteness and the literary imagination
Drie essays over de rol van de neger in drie romans van blanke Amerikaanse auteurs: Cather, Poe en Twain.
Mörkt spel : vithet och den litterära fantasin
Electronic books
Playing in the dark whiteness and the literary imagination
Im Dunkeln spielen : weisse Kultur und literarische Imagination ; Essays
Littérature américaine Auteurs noirs américains.
Literatura estadounidense Autores negros Historia y crítica.
amerikansk litteratur litteraturanalyser
Letteratura americana - Autori neri - Storia e criticismo.
Literatura norteamericana Autores negroamericanos Historia y crítica.
littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) noir (race)
Literatura nord-americana Història i crítica.
Afro-Américain (peuple) littérature américaine (Etats-Unis)
Literatura norteamericana Historia y crítica.
Literatura nord-americana Escriptors afroamericans.
Littérature américaine Histoire et critique.
Literatura estadounidense Autores blancos Historia y crítica.